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Students in Charlevoix, Michigan, will hear from @NASA_Astronaut @astro_josh during a space-to-Earth call that will air live at 10:15am ET on Monday, Dec. 12, on NASA TV. ๐Ÿซ๐ŸŒฒ
go.nasa.gov/3Pcq3SM
#ISS
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Over the past couple weeks, Hubble explored #StarrySights! โœจ

These new Hubble images showcase the beauty, science, and cosmic activity that star clusters contain.

Hungry for more? Check out Hubble's star cluster Flickr album: go.nasa.gov/3UKRPXy
#Hubble



You can get with this, or you can get with that. ๐Ÿ”ต๐Ÿ”ด

Astronomers analyzed data from @NASAHubble through two different filters to piece together how a type of star cluster not found in our Milky Way formed at an unusually young age. More on the findings: go.nasa.gov/3FGzqa4
#NASA

#NASA

in reply to Nick Moline

Strips out the formatting, but still works. Ok, I like this, this works


So it seems if I want things to federate properly to Mastodon, I need to not have separate title and content, how about if I just put in content with no title, does that work?


How do fuller posts end up on federation


I'm curious how a fuller post (i.e. one with a title, etc) looks through federation.


Esta semana participamos del Foro Soberanรญa Tecnolรณgica en #Mรฉxico, como parte del encuentro de la Red Tierra Comun y Feminist AI Research Network

๐Ÿ“บAquรญ pueden ver un fragmento de la charla que compartimos junto a Redes AC, @tierra_comun y Stefanรญa Acevedo.

๐Ÿ‘‰ youtu.be/SCBvQtQJYJU



I like the fediverse but I'm not sure I'm liking the mastodon software, I'll keep investigating
in reply to Nick Moline

Other me here checking out a Friendica instance. I kinda like it, I like that it is PHP based, I like that it is less branded, I like that I can write longer posts, and I like that it supports multiple protocols in addition to ActivityPub.


Targeted for launch aboard a @SpaceX Falcon 9 no earlier than Dec. 11, at 2:38 a.m. EST, our tiny Lunar Flashlight satellite will head to an orbit around the Moon where it will use lasers to light up dark craters to hunt for hidden water ice. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/3hhggys
#NASATechnology
in reply to NASA

It makes me sad you guys are using SpaceX. โ˜น๏ธ
in reply to NASA

Most of us cannot keep working batteries in our flashlights and you do this!


The Best Books of 2022, compiled from dozens of "best of" lists and featuring authors like Emily St. John Mandel, N.K. Jemisin, Kenji Lรณpez-Alt, Stacy Schiff, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Ed Yong. kottke.org/22/12/the-best-bookโ€ฆ


Thank you for sharing this #NASAMoonSnap with us!

Our #Artemis missions will lay the groundwork for taking the next giant leap โ€” sending astronauts to Mars.
#NASAArtemis #Artemis



Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing, is coming out with a new book called Saving Time. "Our daily experience, dominated by the corporate clock, is destroying us. It wasn't built for people, it was built for profit." bookshop.org/a/2966/9780593242โ€ฆ


Alaska holds 40% of U.S. surface water resources but is largely unmonitored due to its size and terrain.

The upcoming SWOT mission will collect data to help fill gaps in these remote places and provide valuable info to local decision-makers. go.nasa.gov/3W2FUFN
#NASAJPL



By #TrackingWorldWater, SWOT will allow scientists and water managers to understand how often streams experience low- and high-flow conditions and develop a reference point to evaluate current conditions - all from the vantage point of space. youtube.com/clip/Ugkx9lRtaXCnPโ€ฆ
#NASAJPL


This is so, so cool! A whole bunch of #DIY #Modular #Synth modules!

Looks like most of them also offer #schematics if you don't even want to order the #PCBs and panels.

kosmodulargrid.com/



Think...smallโœจ
@NASAHubble captured this view of a tiny fraction of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy. It's one of our nearest neighbors, ''only'' about 200,000 light-years away. go.nasa.gov/3HjOuvL
#NASAExoplanets


Electronic Signatures are simpler & speed up processes.

With eID Easy back-end, this app enables you to quickly send a file needing a signature to the recipient.

Once signed, the new document appears directly in your Nextcloud instance! apps.nextcloud.com/apps/electrโ€ฆ



Now for the grand #StarrySights finale!

The last image in our star cluster celebration shows NGC 1850, about 160,000 light-years away.

It includes ultraviolet observations, which are ideal for detecting light from the hottest and youngest stars, as seen in this luminous view.
#Hubble



If you remember yesterday's new image, this is another pointing at the same cosmic object โ€“ plus different filters were used with Hubble's camera. Find out more about this pair of images โฌ‡๏ธ go.nasa.gov/3FDHRDj
#Hubble



Picks of the Day:

โžก๏ธ @auditorymusings - Music blog recommending classic rock and pop albums

โžก๏ธ @gamingonlinux - Video channel covering gaming on Linux including the Steam Deck

โžก๏ธ @OutofPrintArchive - Preserving classic video game magazines, especially those from the UK before 2000

โžก๏ธ @effinbirds - Illustrations of birds swearing (very strong language)

โžก๏ธ @Chron - Local news outlet for Houston, Texas, from same publisher as Houston Chronicle

More follows at fedi.directory

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Every Frame a Painting on how the Coen brothers' distinctive style of shot creates comedy & empathy. kottke.org/16/02/the-coen-brotโ€ฆ
in reply to kottke.org

Of course, Kottke is an internet institution. If by some chance you're not familiar or didn't see the transition to this new platform, you should be following here on Mastodon.


The Exp 68 crew wraps up the workweek preparing to grow dwarf tomatoes, studying fluid physics, and working on spacesuits ahead of more spacewalks. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20โ€ฆ
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Our second astronomical gift is โ€ฆ two giant bubbles!
With the Fermi spacecraft, scientists found out that our Milky Way galaxy is blowing bubbles โ€” two of them! Each bubble is about 25,000 light-years tall and glows in gamma rays. tmblr.co/Zz_Uqj2dMNkMX
#NASAUniverse


Got science? The #Apollo17 mission to the Moon sure did! A variety of experiments kept the crew busy, including those on the Moon's surface, in lunar orbit, and in transit to and from the Moon. go.nasa.gov/3uDTbsK
#NASAMoon


Classic television banger: Mr. Bean is late for the dentist. youtube.com/watch?v=IacjiYGj9lโ€ฆ


Congratulations, MAVEN team! mars.nasa.gov/maven/
#NASAMars


Galaxy brain ๐Ÿคฏ

Preliminary Webb science shows galaxies confirmed by spectroscopy to date back to less than 400 million years after the big bang. Finding and confirming early galaxies is a continuous process, and Webb is just getting started: go.nasa.gov/3uB4npV
#JamesWebb

in reply to NASA

It's insane how big space is. I can't really understand it. And the fact that the light we are seeing from all these distant galaxies is billions of years old.


#DidYouKnow that the #Apollo17 crew werenโ€™t the only living creatures on the mission? Along with their astronaut counterparts, 5 pocket mice were carried into orbit to assess their exposure to particle radiation. ๐Ÿญ #Apollo50th

Photo credit: @USGS
#NASAhistory



Anti-grav Wipeout tribute racer BallisticNG v1.3 adds new tracks, vehicles and game modes gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/wipeโ€ฆ #IndieGame #Racing #Wipeout



After evaluating the weather, the #Artemis I mission management team decided on a landing site in the Pacific Ocean near Guadalupe Island.

Splashdown is expected at 12:39pm ET (17:39 UTC) on Dec. 11: go.nasa.gov/3FgTnTv
#NASAArtemis #Artemis



1968โ€”Douglas Engelbart demonstrates the oN-Line System (NLS), The Mother of All Demos


The Mother of All Demos is a name given retrospectively to Douglas Engelbart's December 9, 1968, demonstration of experimental computer technologies that are now commonplace.

The live demonstration featured the introduction of the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor.

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The New York City Sub-Culinary Map is a remix of the city's iconic subway map by Rick Meyerowitz and Maira Kalman with the names of all the stations and landmarks replaced with food (e.g. "Lemon Sq." for "Union Sq.") kottke.org/22/12/the-new-york-โ€ฆ






This week on #SpaceToGround, a successful spacewalk to deploy a solar array, a constellation of international CubeSats takes flight, and cargo operations unload new science and ice cream.
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